Adamowski, Joseph (actually, Josef)
Adamowski, Joseph (actually, Josef)
Adamowski, Joseph (actually, Josef), PolishAmerican cellist, brother of Timothée Adamowski; b. Warsaw, July 4, 1862; d. Cambridge, Mass., May 8, 1930. He studied with Goebelt at the Warsaw Cons. (1873–77) and with Fitzenhagen and Tchaikovsky at the Moscow Cons. From 1889 to 1907 he played in the Boston Sym. Orch. In 1896 he married the pianist Antoinette Szumowska, with whom he and his brother formed the Adamowski Trio.
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